The Netflix documentary “Unknown Number: The High School Catfish” tells the story of Lauryn Licari, whose own mother, Kendra Licari, anonymously cyberbullied her for over a year.
Lauryn was 13 when she and her then-boyfriend, Owen McKenny, started receiving messages from an unknown number in October 2020. The messenger claimed that Owen planned to break up with Lauryn and didn’t actually like her. The young couple had no idea who sent the texts and tried to forget about it. Then in September 2021, the messages resumed.
“It had to be someone who had been around me or one of my close friends,” Lauryn said in the doc, noting that the anonymous cyberbully called her by her nickname, “Lo.”
Lauryn was right to suspect someone close to her, but she never could’ve prepared herself for the revel